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Pirate ship   /pˈaɪrət ʃɪp/   Listen
Pirate ship

noun
1.
A ship that is manned by pirates.  Synonym: pirate.






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"Pirate ship" Quotes from Famous Books



... promontory extending far out into the bay. "That 's Squantum. Miles Standish of Plymouth named it that after an Indian that was a good friend of the Colony in the early days. Well, right off there I was overhauled by a French privateer once. 'Privateer' is a polite name for a pirate ship. She was loaded with molasses, indigo, and such from the West Indies, and I had a cargo of beaver-skins. If it had n't been that her sailors was mostly roarin' drunk at the time, it 's likely that would have been the end of Thomas Sanders, ...
— The Puritan Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins



Words linked to "Pirate ship" :   ship, corsair



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